Jeremy Fink Summary Chapter 19

In this book, Jeffrey Ogbar talks about the beginning of rap, where it started, some of the artists of this genre and some of the controversial topics the artists rap about. He also talks about the usage of the N word as well as men calling women the B word. In the first chapter of the book, Ogbar contextualizes the debate by talking about the history of the minstrel figure in American popular culture, relying mainly on the work of W. T. Lhamon and Patricia Hill Collins. He talks about how the earliest manifestations of hip-hop music in the 1970s came from the Black Power movement and often included direct rejections of minstrel tropes for example in the artist KRS-One’s song “My Philosophy”. Before going on a chronological study of the internal debates that many rappers have over their relationships with the minstrel trope, Ogbar finds the source of the debate in early twentieth-century black writers’, mainly W.E.B Du Bois, interest in elevating many portrayals of African Americans in the arts, versus Harlem Renaissance writers’ rejection of the emphasis on

Mark Pfetzer starts his climbing experience at twelve years old. He lives in Rhode Island, his director named Christian. Mark at first didn’t trust the rope, but he found where to put his feet, and gained confidence. He loved it. Mark has never liked ball sports, but instead hiking, running, karate, and fly fishing. Mark does not connect with many people his age, so Mark usually hung around people of an older age. To get his training going, Mark wanted to register for the Rock Gym, but has to be fifteen. Since he looks older for his age, he gets past by. Inside of the gym, there is a huge rock wall where he starts climbing on it. There he meets Geoff, a climber and a doctor who says he could do ice climbing if he gets sponsors. Mark starts mailing for sponsor to get $300 to climb Mt. Crawford.

Jim was influenced by the different missionaries visiting his home, who then told him about their life on faraway mission fields. He asked them questions and dreamed about being a missionary himself some day.

In 1619, Virginia was an isolated British settlement on the Chesapeake Bay. It was sparsely populated by men trying to make the colony profitable for England. But the colonists were devastated by hunger, disease, and raids by Native Americans. So when the White Lion, a badly damaged Dutch slave ship arrived, carrying 20 kidnapped black Africans, the colonists bartered food and services for the human cargo. The Africans started working for the colonists. They would work 7 years of hard labor in exchange for land and freedom. But when colonies started to prosper, the colonists were reluctant to lose their labor. Since the Africans did not have citizenship, they were not subject to English common law. They were workers with no rights.

Leveraging more than 15 years of experience establishing international manufacturing markets, Casey Ingels leads the Lakewood, Washington-based manufacturing and distribution company, Tactical Tailor, Inc., as chief executive officer. Casey Ingels heads the production of multiple brands under the Tactical Tailor, Inc. banner, including Tactical Tailor, Grey Ghost Gear, Karrimor SF and Karrimor USA.

In Marion Winik’s essay “The Things They Googled”, Winik associates certain Google searches with different kinds of people, such as those that are young, old, lonely, and forgetful. Young people would google what they didn’t know or what they were supposed to know, older people would google what they’d forgotten, and lonely people would make searches based on their past relationships. Winik makes the assumption that these groups of people all would be googling similar content. Winik might be criticizing Google searches, or she could just be criticizing people based off the searches they’ve made. Although she may not have meant to come off as critical, her language and tone can easily lead someone to believing so.

The Constitution was an attempt to address problems of decentralization that were experienced under the Articles of Confederation.

“Annals of the Former World” puts four of John McPhee’s books on the geology and geological history of North America together. They bring up the scientists who found the information that explains the history of North America. McPhee had joined some of them on expeditions, and described the work they did, as well as recorded the ideas they had.

In chapter five of Nicholas Cooks book, he discusses how music must be represented in terms of performance value and its ability to convey emotions. He talks of how music in Western culture sets out to be conveyed as a performance of a piece and that its hidden meaning is to be conveyed from this performance. He also feels that the meanings of popular music, jazz, non-Western music pieces does depend on how they are performed. Cook believes that both perception and composition are fundamental when dealing with music as they work with each other.

I read the chapter “The Newcomers”, the book first starts off by stating how France started sending explorers to find new lands. When Francis I, (The king of France) sent Jacque Cartier, his job was to find a shipping route and precious gems and metals. Jacque Cartier arrived at Newfoundland and from there journeyed down to Prince Edward Island. Chief Donnacona went with his brother and two sons protest the cross, but the French convinced Donnacona to allow Jacque Cartier to take his two sons Domagaya and Taignoagny. Donnacona told stories to ward off Cartier from going past Quebec City, but soon Cartier went against Donnaconas wishes and past Quebec City and went as far as Montreal. Cartier’s crew got sick with scurvy and died off but he was still alive so he set sail back to France.

1. Chapter 1, is about introducing the Tres Camarones, the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Also, since the people in that town didn’t like change much there are already danger roaming around like the bandidos who will be evading the town.

Chapter Nine goes into detail about the late Paleoindian Period the growth of agriculture in North and South America. Clovis points appeared all over the Americas attesting to a continent-wide networking. However, as time pasted distinctive points and tools began to pop up based on region and the needs it provided for. In fact, a common theme of this chapter was the Native Americans ability to exploit their resources and maximize their intake of food sources.

In chapter 22 James McBride was searching for the synagogue his family went to before his mother had left to New York. James had met the rabbi of that synagogue but he only gave James very small information about his mother's family so he hadn't really been much help to figuring out his family roots (Mcbride 222). James relly needed help trying to figure out his family roots so he decided to speak to the man whose father had owned the Shilsky's old shop when after they had departed from the town Suffolk. The man who was giving the information to James was named Aubrey Rubenstein and his father owned the store after the Shilsky’s. James had thought it was possible that his mother’s sister Dee-Dee but he had assumed that him meeting her would

Craig Blomberg, New Testament Scholar and Professor at Denver Seminary, provides an insightful commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. Blomberg investigates the text using a historical, literary, and theology analysis. The commentary begins with an introduction analyzing the following 7 topics regarding the entirety of the Matthean Gospel: (1) structure, (2) theology, (3) purpose and audience, (4) sources, (5) date, (6) author, (7) and historicity and genre. Blomberg, then, throughout the rest of the commentary, provides a verse by verse discourse on the text by breaking it down into 3 main sections: (I) Introduction to Jesus’ Ministry (1:1-4:16), (II) The Development of Jesus’ Ministry (4:17-16:20), and (III) The Climax of Jesus’ Ministry (16:21-28:20).

In the book Jeremy Fink and The Meaning of Life and the comic strip by Jim Henson the message they are trying reveal is that in the comic strip the boys were telling the boy to stop doodling and be like them but you can create your own destiny and future. Therefore, Mass and Henson convey a common message that you can create your own fate and Jeremy didn’t stop being himself and making his own future, through the use of metaphors. Both Mass and Henson use metaphors to reveal that Mass uses metaphors for expressions like “Everybody’s string is different.” Mass is saying, your life is different from anybody’s.